+1 On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'd like to drop the support for Java 6 and 7 in our SystemML 1.0 release. > Our build still refers to a java compliance level 6, which has not been > changed for more than 5 years now. Spark >= 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 and > there has been some discussion on removing Java 7 as well because it > reached end of life in April 2015. Moving to Java 8 would allow us to > modernize the code base going forward and the 1.0 release would be the > perfect time for this change. > > Regards, > Matthias > -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/